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The successful development and market insertion of a financially successful new product requires technology, marketing, manufacturing, and luck. This paper suggests various steps in the process that are critical to success. More specifically, the paper deals with the special problems encountered by small business. The analysis is presented in light of the Small Business Innovative Research program...
An important element of IT governance is the provision of robust IT capability. The concept of process capability maturity provides a useful methodology for the measurement and analysis of the state of IT capability. The COBIT IT Governance framework provides both a measurement methodology and IT process structure that provides a foundation for the measurement of process capability maturity across...
This paper intends to develop a scale for market orientation of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Scale items are generated by field interviews and pilot test. Statistical software packages like SPSS13.0 and LISREL8.7 are used to conduct exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis on the questionnaires finished by top managers from NPOs. The final nonprofit market orientation (NMO)...
This research focuses on the execution-oriented back end of new service development. It reviews extensively existing theories of service design and the tools and techniques used at the design stage. Based on a review of the work from several well-known service-research academicians, this research unifies the state-of-the-art thinking on service design by proposing three tracks of activities. To make...
The success of enterprise information system implementation has become a major management concern. Different methodologies have been proposed to evaluate enterprise system (ES) success. Some researchers have emphasized the need for evaluating the ES success from the viewpoints of several stakeholder groups. These stakeholders typically have several and often conflicting objectives and priorities....
By building the framework of the organizational culture, organizational learning capability and technological innovation capability and sustainable competitive advantage, this paper makes an empirical research based on the 204 large and medium-sized manufacturing in the Pearl River Delta. The results show that the openness of the organizational culture and the organizational learning capability has...
Based on the debate between strategic management theory and organizational ecology theory about managerial inertia and managerial flexibility, the paper proposes a model for deciding the optimal balance between managerial inertia and managerial flexibility. In the model, inertia and flexibility are not recognized to be static, instead, they are changing with specific organizational changes. Managerial...
In a competitive business landscape, large organizations such as insurance companies and banks are under high pressure to innovate, improvise and distinguish their products and services while continuing to reduce the time-to market for new product introductions. Generating a single view of the customer is vital from different perspectives of the systems developer over a period of time because of the...
In the digital economy, IS projects play an increasingly important role for creating value and organizations have grown more heavily dependant on IS to help them solve problems and overcome challenges. However, lots of IS projects end in failure. The failed projects waste businesses millions of dollars every year and often prevent key business objectives from being met. Failing to identify and manage...
Virtual organizations offer significant enhancements to enterprisepsilas capabilities for collaboration and have exciting ambitions in e-Enterprise. But current researches pay less attention to how to guarantee reliable operation of e-Enterprises when they evolve dynamically. This paper combines the Semantic Web technology with architecture based modeling approach to semantically describe e-Enterprise...
The development of Rasch measurement model has rapidly expanded from social science educational fields to other engineering and technology field as well. This study is an attempt to apply Rasch measurement in the field of technology to assess information managers' (IM) competency. Learning outcomes is used in constructing the Rasch model measurement in assessing their competencies. Rasch model tabulates...
Innovation, as an important corporate strategy, is the key activity that contributes to building core competitive advantage. During the process, the organizational learning decides the level of company's gaining innovative knowledge. This paper, based on learning theory and knowledge management theory, explores the relationship between knowledge's transfer, organizational learning and the organizational...
In recent years, electronic commerce has experienced phenomenal growth. Electronic commerce is not only about technology, although a great deal of knowledge is required to apply during diffusion of electronic commerce. Hence, a model is proposed and tested showing how firms promote knowledge application during diffusion of electronic commerce. Based on survey responses from 218 Chinese firms, the...
With the advent of knowledge economy, enterprises are relying on knowledge integration, while firm-internal social capital takes an important role in knowledge integration and core competence. The sample of this study derived from Beijing and Guangzhou city, we want to explore whether and how internal social capital influence on knowledge integration and core competence. And finally, we proofed that...
It is strong necessary for this study to extent the literature contributions for the effect of resource-based theory on e-CRM study. Based on the theory perspective, the purpose of this study is to expand and achieve a better understanding of a natural e-CRM phenomenon, namely the interaction effect of HR-service capability, IT-service capability, and KM-service capability on its e-CRM process to...
Many scholars believe that enterprises should continue to improve their management capacity, especially in an increasingly volatile environment. Management capability in enterprises includes operational flexibility, structural flexibility and strategic flexibility, only different environments match different types of flexibilities, enterprise performance can be improved. Through the investigation...
This study investigates the inter-relationships among organizational learning, knowledge transfer and dynamic capabilities. Based on 175 questionnaires from Chinese high-tech companies, this paper implements a structural equation model to test the research framework and hypotheses. The results show that organizational learning has direct positive impact on knowledge transfer but no direct positive...
In order to get the influence degree imposed on human resource management by cultural differences within strategic alliance of transnational enterprise, a special questionnaire is specially designed, and the results is analyzed so as to get the measuring value of influence. Empirical research shows that differences in systematic culture, operation idea, operation mode, and values within strategic...
There are very limited studies on the impact of organizational factors on performance of e-business. E-business has changed the face of most business functions in competitive enterprises. So, our effort examined e-business initiatives in organizational factors. This study investigated the impact of two organizational factors, human resource factors and organizational infrastructure factors on the...
This study develops an integrated model of trust, open-mindedness, knowledge application and organizational performance. We analyze the model using a structural equation model approach, and 208 manufacturing and service firms in China are selected as the samples of this study. The results conclude that: (1) Trust is positively relative open-mindedness; (2) Trust is a function of its knowledge application;...
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